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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1898
Page
2
A lyrical reminiscence of a quiet rural town, unchanged through years. The speaker recalls familiar homes, yards, and faces, contrasting peaceful nights with changes around the village. The poem laments the ghostly growth of a cemetery and vows affection for the town and departed loved ones.
The narrator recalls moving to Granite Falls a long time ago, describing the canyon town, river, mills, and the unexpected Jasper cave. He recounts exploring with his sister Bessie, an Indian encounter with Joe, a brush with danger from a landslide, a storm, captivity in the cave, and their rescue by a search party led by their father. The tale ends with a reflective note on punishment and a humorous postscript about a college president’s anecdote.
A symposium on guidance argues that helping learners too readily can hinder growth. It advocates gradual exposure to basics, building core understanding before tackling complex problems, comparing teaching to careful engineering and the need to cultivate comprehension rather than solve for pupils.
The article outlines lighting choices by wall color and room decor. It notes dark papers require more candles while white rooms need fewer, and emphasizes using creamy tones for sitting rooms. It also provides two dessert recipes: pistachio cream frozen dessert and a strawberry sauce with cheesecloth straining.
A collage of dialogue bits and jokes from vintage humor pages. Nonsense lines, playful quips, and misheard phrases appear from sources like Puck Brooklyn Life and Cincinnati Speller, with samples about vanity, manners, and daily life.
A detailed scene describes coconuts being unloaded and sorted on a wharf. Workers count and separate sound nuts from cracked or sprouted ones, packing into sacks of 100 large and 120 small nuts. The counting relies on tapping together nuts, with multiple men sorting, packing, and stowing bags for shipment. The cargo size varies by vessel, from 350000 to 600000 nuts, typically taking about a week to unload.
A text describes a covered pan or trough design to feed soft poultry food, preventing trampling and fouling by greedy chicks. It notes wet muddy conditions, suggests placing food in a shallow pan or trough, and proposes a double tin trough as shown in the figure to keep birds from stepping in the feed.
Instructions describe constructing a tin trough box from two feet to any length, six inches wide, with three inch wide halves, square ends, and a washable tin trough. A matching inner box supports the trough, at least a foot high at the eaves, with an oval roof formed by rounded end boards and a thin stiff piece nailed in place.
A sturdy trough box with hinged roof and wire bars two inches apart secures feed from fowls and stray animals. The design requires side wire ends bent right angles driven through wood and clinched for strength, ensuring easy access while preventing contamination.
An author favors low spreading trees for apiaries citing shade ease for apiarists and bees. Queen clipping reduces swarm climbing. Grapevines offer shade but hinder handling and require trimming. Out-yard colonies nest near rase woods. another keeper, Vernon Burt, places hives in an apple orchard with sheep grazing.
Farmers should avoid late corn cultivation to protect roots and feed calves from tin or galvanized pails if they refuse to drink rather than starve them. Overripe grass is woody. cut when it blooms to preserve aroma. Clover hay outperforms timothy. Wheat may be a high price for next crop. avoid selling early. Club together to lower binder twine prices.
Prairie Farmer quotes B C Woodward advising farmers to sow three pounds of rape seed per acre in cornfields at last cultivation. A rider on a horse spreads seed east over standing corn, some lodging in leaves, but enough reaching soil to yield a profitable crop. Though not showy when corn is cut, rape grows rapidly after fall rains and can pasture large stock, increasing ground value beyond seed cost.
Dialogue at a counter reveals a woman in distress over a missing baby. She takes a colored infant after hours of waiting for a check to appear, leaving two friends stunned as the Washington Post note the breaking of a longtime bond.
A trader from New Yorker to Chicago opened a small North Side shop selling cigars on credit. He quickly amassed stock and customers, then assigned. creditors held a meeting where an eastern judgment debtor seized most assets, leaving 270 cigars and $6.30. The debtor owed over $4,000 to those present and planned liquidation, while a violent, brutal scene unfolds in the surrounding imagery.
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